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Living on the edge of the world: Hunger
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Friday, 23 December 2016. My first week in the Home. A medical is what the young nurse says. No choice. I can remember the nurse weighing me. Just a point on a chart. My point so low. 8220;You must eat more” the nurse said – like an echo of what she said to Eve. Eat more? Sometimes, in my former world, to eat at all was just a hope. A hope that perhaps this weekend I would have a breakfast, lunch and tea. “No lunch for you, you wicked girl and no tea for answering back.”. No chance for Ella! It's all gon...
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Living on the edge of the world: April 2016
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Friday, 29 April 2016. Cats - but not the famous musical! In December 2014 I wrote. Regular readers will know the story of our two refuge cats Romulus and Remus. They did everything together and it was somehow fitting that fate had brought them into our lives. So it is with great sadness I have to tell your all that Romulus died of old-age last Thursday and that Remus was put to sleep by the vet this morning. At the moment the cats' bed is still where it has always been. Perhaps at the weekend we wil...
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Living on the edge of the world: August 2015
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Thursday, 27 August 2015. Children in Care and their memory gaps. It was while she was pregnant that Ella started to get concerned about a small, highly specific, memory loss. In the end she went to the doctor with a list of questions. Is it normal to have gaps in your memory? The time from being taken away from Mr Nut Job to meeting Eve in the Home is very bitty in my head. Eve calls it a jigsaw puzzle with pieces missing! Lots of questions, some that I didn't understand. The doctor wasn’t much he...
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Living on the edge of the world: July 2016
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Friday, 29 July 2016. Eve and Ella praised as "influential figures"! I suppose we should both be flattered at being labelled as "influential". Particularly when the comment was made by somebody who has a lifetime of academic and practical experience in the twin areas of fostering teenagers and in the senior management of Children's Homes. If only it were true! Can you imagine a major retail outlet that has no interest in the views of the customers? Even Governments are called to account every five years ...
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Living on the edge of the world: January 2016
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Friday, 29 January 2016. Lost and found - a January project! During the long and rather boring weeks after Christmas and the New Year Ella and I made a real effort to track down some former friends who we hadn't heard from for at least six months. We had three successes and one failure. Was a former subscriber to the Adoption and Fostering in the UK forum. And that is where we first met him. His own parents had been long-term foster parents. For a while because her final teen has been moved onwards and u...
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Living on the edge of the world: March 2016
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Tuesday, 22 March 2016. Book - How I survived in and out of Care. The book is available through Amazon in the UK. If you were fostered or if you spent time living in a Children’s Home you need to read this book. Many books have been written and many websites have been created that discuss fostering from the perspective of the foster parent. Virtually nothing, until now, has been written from the point of view of the child. A REVIEW OF THE BOOK. Not enough is known about how it feels to be fostered. The a...
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Living on the edge of the world: August 2016
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Thursday, 25 August 2016. Heaven, hell and death. Far too many foster children have experienced the death of somebody near to them and I can think of several of my friends who ended up in care because of parental death. If they are like many of us they must wonder sometimes if they will see their parents again or if death is really the end of everything. If a child dies before he or she is capable of making genuine moral decisions, there is only innocence, and the child will experience the same type of f...
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Living on the edge of the world: December 2016
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Friday, 23 December 2016. My first week in the Home. A medical is what the young nurse says. No choice. I can remember the nurse weighing me. Just a point on a chart. My point so low. 8220;You must eat more” the nurse said – like an echo of what she said to Eve. Eat more? Sometimes, in my former world, to eat at all was just a hope. A hope that perhaps this weekend I would have a breakfast, lunch and tea. “No lunch for you, you wicked girl and no tea for answering back.”. No chance for Ella! Life with Ka...
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Tales of a Foody Mama : December 2014
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Tales of a Foody Mama. I love food . love eating and learning about all kinds of cuisine and even more I love to cook food. wether it be for my husband and kids, my extended family or friends.I just love cooking . so Im sharing my passion with you . mostly about Indian and Asian food. I hope you enjoy my recipes and give some of them a try! Wednesday, 31 December 2014. We all have that friend who . For this recipe I made John Whaite's. For the pastry you will need :. 125g golden caster sugar. Start with ...
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